Welcome to Fiscal Spotlight, a special monthly round up of projects—at all stages of production—working their way through Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship pipeline. *** Making movies can be a grueling experience, no…
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Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Donate today and help bring The Chosen One to life. Logline After…
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“Nothing much happens anyway.” That may seem an unlikely statement from a director on his films—unless he’s Richard Linklater, of course. Film Independent curator Elvis Mitchell began the Evening With…
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Have you ever showed up to speed dating only to find the opposite side of the barcade banquette occupied by a Puritan it-girl, Chicano art collective or trans-femme disco-dancing granny?…
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Here at Film Independent, we’re still deep in the demonic grip of Halloween fever. Office productivity has slowed to a lumbering, monster-like crawl as our staffers struggle to answer emails…
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Way back in the churning primordial din of Earth’s prehistory—the 1990s, let’s say—there were in fact comparatively few resources available for learning how to become a filmmaker. Unless you were…
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Any time something new and shiny comes along it’s inevitable that artists and creators will gather around whatever the thing and wonder: “Hmm, what could I do with this?” Wheels…
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Ever since its launch, Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program has supported a wide variety of projects: shorts, features, both narrative and nonfiction—even the occasional new media project, special event or…
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Los Angeles (April 6, 2011) — The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that…
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Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. Donate today and help bring Season of the Witches to life. Logline American PhD…
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Hi. My name’s Will. I work with Ralph and Catherine and Elvis at Film Independent. I also just made a movie called Cold Turkey starring Peter Bogdanovich and Cheryl Hines….
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I’ve known about Joan Scheckel for years. Or so I thought. But I had never actually experienced her Technique until this month. Let me just explain that I have been…
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/conflict-is-not-our-only-dance-step-joan-scheckel-explains-the-technique/